As for how Russia profits? They're sitting back laughing as Trump destorys our economy and our reputation. And if its ever proven without a shadow of a doubt that Trump is a Russian asset, there will be hell to pay.

Russia fears NATO. Trump is risking possible war with NATO - not just Denmark - over the Greeland bullshit. Trump is badmouthing and abandoning Ukraine. And he has shown far too much tolerance of Putin. That all feeds into the `Russian asset' theory.

Tariffs DO NOT work when you import more things from the countries affected than you export to them. I've seen far too many MAGA idiots who keep saying `tariffs are a tax on those countries' because they don't realize the costs are passed on to the consumer. These fools will blaming anyone other than Trump when prices go up. 

By raising a 5% tariff to 7 to 10%? 

Trump just slapped 105% on China.  Even Elon is starting to get lippy about Peter Navarro. He can see through the Ketamine well enough still to know that such indiscriminate application is stupid enough that it's hard to find an economist not named "Ron Vera" who approves. 

Workers at the FoxConn plant in ShenZhen earn less than $3/hr.  Boring and soul-crushing enough they had to put up suicide nets, but also the best job they ever had, too. They can send money home.  China is still an emerging economy with a large fraction living like they did 2000 years ago.

Try building iPhones in America with the sort of wages and workweek we demand.  According to Forbes, $30000 per phone in vastly smaller volume.

Tariffs can be a useful economic tool when deftly applied (to protect domestic industries), but what happens when the tariffed product is not made here at all or would be cheaper than what we can do even with the tariff?  All you'll do is slow down your economy. In this case, globally.

Personally, considering what I just spent on an iPhone a couple months ago, I'd just as soon them tack on $100 per phone so the workers don't want to die.

(Edited to fix typo)

It’s funny when every new thing comes along suddenly everyone is an expert in it.  Russia.  Tariffs.  Economics. 

>> I am not a Trump supporter. <<

No, I got that. What do you support?  

As for "honesty in history," do you agree that Hamilton's tariffs were a tax on Americans? That he found the money for the war by taxing Americans?  Of course, they had to pay for it somehow, and the tools at their discretion were limited, but still a tax on Americans.

You understand that Trump thinks tariffs are paid by the exporting country, right?  Counselor to the President Peter Navarro was just on TV the other day saying tariffs were a tax *cut*, and was still pushing the "foreigners" pay nonsense.  This is the heart of all the obvious and inevitable opposition.  Their position (and actions) are founded on a clear falsehood.